Some were fools through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities suffered affliction;
Jeremiah 5:25 - English Standard Version 2016 Your iniquities have turned these away, and your sins have kept good from you. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Your iniquities have turned these blessings away, and your sins have kept good [harvests] from you. American Standard Version (1901) Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good from you. Common English Bible Your wrongdoing has turned these blessings away. Your sin has robbed you of good. Catholic Public Domain Version Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have held back good things from you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have withholden good things from you. |
Some were fools through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities suffered affliction;
a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the evil of its inhabitants.
but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
“Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O Lord, for your name’s sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have the forehead of a whore; you refuse to be ashamed.
Your ways and your deeds have brought this upon you. This is your doom, and it is bitter; it has reached your very heart.”
Why should a living man complain, a man, about the punishment of his sins?
The punishment of your iniquity, O daughter of Zion, is accomplished; he will keep you in exile no longer; but your iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he will punish; he will uncover your sins.